Background
Caraher grew up in Crossmaglen and attended Queen"s University Belfast, where he became active in the Irish nationalist New Ireland Society, although he saw himself principally as a supporter of the British Labour Party.
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Ben Caraher
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Queen"s University Belfast.
Career
Caraher became a teacher of English and politics, working in Belfast grammar school. Caraher stood unsuccessfully for the Social Democratic and Labour Party on numerous occasions: in South Belfast at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973. In Belfast Area A at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1973.
In the South Belfast Parliament constituency at the February and October 1974 United Kingdom general elections.
In the 1975 Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in the equivalent Assembly seat. In Belfast Area C at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1981.
And finally at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1982. lieutenant was in 1982 that he came closest to winning a seat, taking fourth place, but narrowly missing out on transfers.
At the Northern Ireland local elections, 1985, Caraher acted as election agent for Dorita Field, who stood unsuccessfully in the Balmoral area.
Achievements
Politics
The NDP became part of the new Social Democratic and Labour Party (Social Democratic and Labour Party), and Caraher immediately became one of its main political theorists. He was part of the team which drafted the party"s constitution, organised the Belfast section of the party, and was elected as its first vice-chairman.
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Political Party
Labour Party